Bob Corker

Bob Corker (24 August 1952-) was a US Senator from Tennessee (R) from 3 January 2007, succeeding Bill Frist.

Biography
Bob Corker was born in Orangeburg, South Carolina in 1952, and he graduated from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. In 1978, he founded a construction company, which he sold in 1990. In 1994, he was defeated in his run for the US Senate as a Republican Party candidate, and he served as Commissioner for Finance and Administration for Tennessee from 1995 to 1996 and as Mayor of Chattanooga from 2001 to 2005. In 2006, he was elected to the Senate, and he opposed abortions (except in cases of the endangerment of the mother or rape or incest), supported making the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts permanent, supported the replacement of the progressive tax with a flat tax, voted against Donald Trump's 2017 tax cuts, criticized the withdrawals from Afghanistan and Iraq, supported supplying Ukraine with lethal weapons, opposed Obamacare, and supported a carbon tax.